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Fighting to save Petrillo name
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Eras change. Heroes change; history charges on-sometimes to mow
down memory and obliterate honors.
Donna DeRosa is here to make sure that doesn't happen to her
grandfather, James Caesar Petrillo.
That's Petrillo, as in the James C. Petrillo Music Shell at Butler
Field in Grant Park at Jackson and Columbus.
When the new privately funded music pavilion in Millennium Park is
dedicated, perhaps by late summer 2001, DeRosa wants the name of her
grandfather to be carried north t...
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